Blog Post due Tuesday 11:59PM or in class on Wednesday at 9:05AM

Homework due Tuesday Nov 30 11:59PM:

Read Barbara Ehrenreich's “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work” 479-495 and compose a blog response based on ONE of the following prompts:

1. Consider what audience this piece was written for. What assumptions does Ehrenreich make about this audience?

2. Consider Ehrenreich's ethos. What is the central argument of this piece? In what ways does her personal experience build her case?

3. Ehrenreich incorporates a range of research and statistics into her essay. Which statistical examples surprised you? Which are most persuasive? Least persuasive? Why?

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Taylor Gillie: Disney Animated Films

The article by Henry Giroux about Disney’s animated films, I thought was very interesting. I liked hearing someones elses interepretation of some of the classic Disney movies and the idea of Disney itself. With that in mind I do not really agree that Disney is as bad as he claims. I agree that Disney is very capitalistic and most all Disney movies have hidden stereotypical cultural references, but honestly I do not really think it is a very big deal. In today’s society everything you look at can be analyzed until something bad is found in it, for the most part Disney movies are fairly good, I do not see why we have to make one of the last few good things in our world out to be bad. I honestly do not think that anyone can make a movie that does not have at least one underlying stereotype, we live in a world of stereotypes, and I think that people just need to live with that. Disney movies are meant to entertain and think that is how they should be taken as.
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  1. KristineZOctober 20, 2010 at 9:29 AM

    I completely agree with the idea that every movie will have a stereotype. That's just the way society is. I know that there were complaints saying that Disney was racist because the minorities only had smaller roles in films (the hyenas in The Lion King), but when Disney made The Princess and the Frog, they immediately attacked that film, saying how racist it was because the main characters were African American. Society will be critical of everything, no matter what, and that is a real issue.

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  2. SamanthaOctober 20, 2010 at 9:37 AM

    I completely agree. People can over analyze anything to make it look bad or bring out a stereotype and then determine that, that thing is "bad." The children do not notice that the hyenas have black and Hispanic voices or how Scar is darker than "the good lions." These stereotypes could be harmful if the children were able recognize and understand the differences but they can't so i agree with what you said, that Disney movies are meant to entertain and that's how they should be viewed as.

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